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BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain President Trump s tax returns before last year s U.S. presidential election has been arrested for violating conditions of his pretrial release, prosecutors said.Jordan Hamlett, 32, committed numerous violations, including hacking into email and social media accounts of a man at the request of the man stanley water bottle s wife and traveling out of state without approval, prosecutors wrote in court records unsealed Friday.Hamlett also accessed the internet with devices that are not monitored, prosecutors said. vaso stanley Last year, Ham stanley france lett tried unsuccessfully to obtain Mr. Trump s tax returns using a U.S. Department of Education financial aid website, prosecutors said. Federal agents arrested him on a charge that he misused a Social Security number in the effort.Hamlett s attorney accused agents of tricking his client by luring him to a Baton Rouge hotel where they questioned him on Oct. 27, less than two weeks before the election. At that time, the agents did not know whether Hamlett had been successful in obtaining Mr. Trump s tax returns, prosecutors said in court records. The agents feared a public release of the documents could influence the election, according to a transcript of testimony obtained by The Associated Press.Hamlett s lawyer didn t immediately return phone and email messages Friday. On Wednesday, a judge ordered him held by the U.S. Marshals Service b Xbpy Gore Urges Action After Nobel Prize Win
It was a moral quagmire no 10-year-old should be tortured by: On Thursdays at 8 orsquo;clock, I could either pedal up Canyon Road to my Awana Club meeting, memorizing Bible verses for the chance to fasten a new pi stanley water jug n on my vest, or stay home and watch The Simpsons. Most weeks I chose eternal damnation. In 1990, The Simpsons -- once crude drawings on the The Tracey Ullman Show and now rude heroes for the nationrsquo youth-- were borderline heretical. In 1992, at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters a stanley cup ssociation, former President George H.W. Bush famously vetoed the show: We seek a nation that is closer to lsquo;The Waltonsrsquo; than to lsquo;The Simpsons.rsquo; When the show first debuted, the moral majority folks felt Fox was marketing bad manners to kids The Simpsons reportedly sold 1 million T-shirts per week at the height of Bartmania . This was before Adult Swim and cartoons for grown-ups. stanley mug Nearly one-third of The Simpsonsrsquo; adult audience describe themselves as conservative, according to the Simmons Research National Consumer Study conducted in fall 2006.Of respondents who had viewed the show in the last week, about 34 percent said they were any conservative, compared to about 42 percent of average American adults whorsquo;d describe themselves the same way. Conservativ

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More clashes between police, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri 01:33 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Sunday that the Ferguson, Mo., police department s release of a surveillance video showing a man resembling Michael Brown committing a robbery at a convenience store produce stanley vaso d a negative reaction in the ongoing unrest over the shooting of t stanley cup quencher he 18-year-old black teenager. I think it had an incendiary effect, Nixon said in an interview on CBS Face the Nation. When you release pictures and you clearly are attempting to besmirch a victim of a shooting, shot down in h stanley cup is own street, a young man, and at the same time you re releasing information...to tarnish him, then properly, there was a lot of folks that were concerned about that, and I do think it flamed it back up and has caused us to have to deal with some of that. Nixon said his office did not know the video was going to be released. CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reported Saturday that federal authorities opposed the release of the video. The clashes between protesters and police have continued for nearly a week since Brown was shot by Darren Wilson, a white officer, in the mostly-black suburb of St. Louis. Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Saturday that was disrupted early Sunday morning when some people refused to disperse. The confrontation was ended about an hour after the curfew, and Hguj Pressure mounts on White House over contraception decision
Don t tell us that Joe Lockhart, former President Clinton s spokesman and a major player on the Democratic PR front, didn t think his party s takeover of the House was in the bag stanley mugg before Election Day. Want proof The day after the Democratic victory, he bought a sprawling $3.1 million house in the city s tony Kalorama section near Dupont Circle. It s huge: three stories, 4,168 square feet with three fireplaces, five bedrooms, and 3 1/2 baths. One who s been in termo stanley side says, What s he need all that space for Lockhart, a founding partner in the Glover Park Group, richly connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton s presidential campaign, isn t talking. I learned a long time ago, he E-mails, to keep my mouth shut about things like this. By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfcaed2a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfcaed2a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-ite stanley en mexico m--id-bfcaed2a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Former New York City Mayor and U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined President Trump s personal legal team that is aiding Mr. Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller s investigation i stanley cup nto Russian election meddling and any ties to Trump associates, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett has confirmed.Sekulow said in a statement that the president welcomed the news, and quoted him, saying, Rudy is great. He has be stanley cups uk en my friend for a long time and wants to get this matter quickly resolved for the good of the country. Sekulow added that he has worked with Giuliani for many years and stanley cup the team welcomes his expertise. He also announced the addition of two other attorneys, Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, both former federal prosecutors. Giuliani will join Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow, who are already on Mr. Trump s team who are left on Mr. Trump s legal team as attorneys have come and gone. In recent weeks, John Dowd has left Mr. Trump s legal team, Joe diGenova was looking to join the team but ultimately did not. Before he departed, Dowd called for an end to the Russia probe, something Giuliani also appears to want to happen. I m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller, Giuliani told the Washington Post, which first reported he is joining Mr. Trump s legal team. Giuliani s entrance also comes as sources clo Nybc McCain requested Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at funeral
If Ted Stevens refuses to resign upon his conviction, he faces expulsion, which has been extremely rare in the history of the U.S. Senate.Only four senators have been convicted of crimes in the 200 plus years of the chamber s history.Here s a handy backgrounder from the Senate Web site: Expulsion: Article I, Section 5, of the United States Constitution provides that Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only 15 of its entire membership. Of that number, fourteen were charged with support of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In sev stanley spain eral other cases, the Senate considere stanley cup d expulsion proceedings but either fo stanley drink bottle und the member not guilty or failed to act before the member left office. In those cases, corruption was the primary cause of complaint. In the entire course of the Senate s history, only four members have been convicted of crimes. They were: Joseph R. Burton 1905 , John Hipple Mitchell 1905 , Truman H. Newberry 1920 , and Harrison Williams 1981 . Newberry s conviction was later overturned. Mitchell died. Burton, Newberry, and Williams resigned before the Senate could act on their expulsion. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a38c40-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc

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With the House of Representatives out of town all week, all eyes in Washington will be on the Senate, where several high-profile issues will likely divide the chamber on party lines.On Monday, the Senate is set to take up the Employment No stanley canada n-Discrimination Act, which would outlaw discrimination on the water bottle stanley basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It comes near the end of a year that has already seen major progress for the supporters of same-sex rights, with two Supreme Court decisions that affirmed the legalization of same-sex marriage in California and barred the federal government from denying benefits to same-sex couples who are legally married.The legislation s success hinges on whether the bill s cosponsors can pick up a handful of Republican votes to prevent a potential filibuster on the legislation. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., are cosponsors of the bill, and two more - Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah and Lisa Murkowski,R-Alaska - voted for it during the committee process over the summer. A few other Republicans could sign on, but the bill is not expected to get a major bipartisan vote. Schieffer: Obamacare rollout fight worse than shutdown stanley cups uk 01:20 A larger issue looms over the Senate in the form of President Obama s nominees to various agencies and courts who have been held Fhdh U.S. sending 1,000 more troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran
With Army Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker set to testify to Congress about the situation in Iraq Monday, Democrats face a touchy political problem -- how do you attack what Petraeus and Crocker are saying without attacking them personally And further, can you do that without looking like yoursquo;re dissing the 170,000 U.S. troops in Iraq Petraeus, who began his military career in 1970 as a freshman at West Point, was unanimously approved by the Senate as the top U.S. commander in Iraq in late January, and he has years of positive press clippings to back up his outsized reputation. In fact, recent internal Republican polling shows that a full three-quarters of Americans know w stanley cup nz ho Petraeus is -- and he enjoys solid, if unspectacular, approval ratings of 36 percent fa stanley thermobecher vorable to 16 unfavorable unfavorable, according to GOP insiders. The Senate didnrsquo;t even hold a roll-call vote on the well-respected Crockerrsquo stanley website nomination as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, instead approving it by voice vote on March 7. Crocker has served in Iraq previously -- as well as Pakistan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iran and Syria -- since joining the foreign service in 1971. So Democrats will have to walk a fine line -- they must undermine what Petraeus and Crocker are saying without looking like they are personally impugning either man. It is always dangerous to go after a general or ambassador, acknowledged a top House

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Before his first major address in his new leadership role on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke with CBS This Morning about the Congressional response to mass shootings after Wednesday s deadly rampage in San Bernardino, California. What we have seen -- and a common theme among many of these mass shootings -- is a theme of mental illness, Ryan said early Thursday. And we need to fix our mental illness laws, our policies. They re outdated. And that is something that we are working on right now. The House speaker touted legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pennsylvania, that would revamp the country s mental health systems. Among other steps, the measure would create an assistant secretary position in the Department of Health and Human Services to address mental illness and fix a shortage of beds in psychiatric hospitals. Speaker Paul Ryan calls for a moment of silence after shooting 00:3 vaso stanley 2 stanley romania stanley polska A lot of these people are getting guns who are mentally unstable, who should not be getting guns. And this is a gap in our laws that we feel needs to be filled, Ryan said. This isn t the first time Ryan has pushed for a mental health care overhaul since taking over the House speakership.On Tuesday, responding to last week s shooting at a Colorado Springs Zrim House Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump meet at Mar-a-Lago
Paul Ryan CBS News Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Tuesday tried to walk a fine line over a defense of President George W. Bush s economic policies, painting himself as a Republican in the mold of stanley cups uk President Reagan and former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp and sidestepping criticism of the last administration. As you know I was raised by [radio host] Bill Bennett and Ja stanley thermobecher ck Kemp politically and economically and philosophically, which is the Reagan style, and it is different than the past administration and the challenges we have right now are different. And so we re offering very different ideas and a very different governing philosophy, said Ryan on Bennett s syndicated radio show.Democrats have argued that Ryan and Mitt Rom vaso stanley ney are merely offering a warmed-over version of Bush s economic policies, which many Americans still view as responsible for the recent recession. Ryan, like most Republicans, voted for policies such as the tax cuts of the early 2000s and the 2003 Medicare prescription-drug benefit. I think they d like to paste us with the Bush thing because they have nothing else to talk about, he said of Democratic attacks, asserting that he wasn t trying to distance himself from Bush s administration. This is sort of what, you know, cynical politicians do when they can t run on their record. They try to talk about the other guy in the worst possible light. But we re talking about our agenda

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Updated: 4:43 p.m. ETOn the heels of a series of reports detailing the U.S. government s practice of tracking private citizens phone and internet use, President Obama on Fr stanley cup iday sought to downplay the invasiveness of the procedure, assuring a California audience that nobody is listening to your phone calls, and that any data tracking is governed by comprehensive oversight spanning all three branches of U.S. government. Nobody is listening to your telephone calls, Mr. Obama said, speaking at an event touting his health care law in California. That s not what this program is about. Earlier this week, the Guardian reported on a classified National Security Agency NSA program that involved collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. The Washington Post also reported Thursday night that the NSA and the FBI have been mining data from the servers of nine American internet com stanley cups uk panies, and extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets. U.S. intel chief blasts leaks on web, phone use trackingNSA secretly mining user data from U.S. Internet giants Responding to widespread outrage at the notion that the government has been secretly accessing the phone and internet records of people w stanley uk orldwide, Mr. Obama on Friday said he was open to debating questions about how are we striking this balance between the need to keep Bkwe What s Next For The Minn. Senate Race
CBS News Last month, Mitt Romney traveled to Southern California to host a roundtable for small business owners in an office park. A few days later, the Romney campaign sent former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty - a top vice presidential prospect - to a very different venue: an ice rink in Cary, N.C. Pawlenty, a former hockey player, conducted his own roundtable for sports parents. He then proceeded to lace up stanley cup a pair of skates - hockey being the secular religion of his home state - and take a spin around the rink. Later that day, at a Romney headquarters in Raleigh, he delivered the ultimate barroom insult to President Obama: that he s all foam and no beer. Then he shook every hand in the room. stanley mug In an election where Obama consistently bests Romney on measures of likability and empathy, it couldn t hurt Romney - the Mormon son of an auto executive turned governor -- to pick someone who has more in common with the average voter than he does. People want to see that in politics right now, people that are stanley mug like them and can relate to them, said Dan Forest, a candidate for lieutenant governor of North Carolina who accompanied Pawlenty during the North Carolina swing. Forest said he likes Romney and finds him approachable, but also said that many people at the campaign stops praised Pawlenty s lack of pretentiousness. Look no further than the two men s choice of hairstyles. While Romney s is sleek, gelled to perfection with nary a

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United Nations -- A White House team has returned to the Middle East for a tour of five friendly nations aimed at garnering support for the administration s still-vague plan to end decades of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. President Donald Trump s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, along with Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, met Jordan s King Abdullah in Amman on Wednesday. The Trump administration s Iran negotiator Brian Hook, who also handles Mideast negotiations on behalf of the State Department, was also expected to be traveling with the team, making stops also in Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Their trip comes a month after Kushner attended a summit in Bahrain at which a proposed $50 billion Palestinian investment plan for the next 10 years was announced. Administration officials have called the proposed cash infusion the economic half of their Mideast peace plan. But they ve revealed very little thus far about the p stanley cup usa olitical aspects of their plan -- which will need to address the disputes that have thwarted other peace initiatives f stanley deutschland or more than half a century.Ex-U.S. Mideast negotiator: Trump peace plan based on a false premise Mis stanley cup sing from the Bahrain discussion were two key delegations: the Israelis, who weren t invited, and the Palestinians, who boycotted the summit and have already rejected the Trump administration s peace effort as biased in favor of Israel. Cjkw Dems Rule Out Primary Do-over
Here s this week s commentary by CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer:Columbia University has decided Al Gore s lectures to journalism students will no longer be off the record. Well, congratulations to all concerned. I ve always respected Al Gore as a smart, stanley portugal decent person - not the kind that once he left office you had to count the silverware. So when he began a series of college lectures on journalism under ground rules that his remarks had to be kept secret by the students, I wasn t worried he had something to hide. And never mind the obvious, that the whole point of journalism is that the news belongs to all the people. garrafa stanley What it underlined to me is just how out of touch a president or vice president can become when they are walled off from the public for long periods of time by all the professional retainers who are paid to help them manipulate the news.In the real world, off-the-record journalism is the punchline to a joke. And anyone who believes a roomful of college students or people of any age can keep anything a secret should seek medical help. Which brings me to the unsolicited advice: Mr. Former Veep, you re in the real world now. You stanley cups uk have a lot to share with young people. You didn t steal the silverware and you re doing a good thing by not charging the students a hundred thousand dollars a pop to hear you.So just tell em the truth. If they like it, they might be the base you can build on to r

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Washington mdash; It was about three minutes after the Supreme Court released i stanley website ts decision rolling back the constitutional right to an abortion when Jamie Cheney understood what she had to do.Cheney, a candidate in the Democratic primary for the 19th Congressional District in upstate New York, was meeting with a group of women mdash; Republicans and Democrats mdash; when the court overturned Roe v. Wade. She recalled how all the women gathered around her reacted in the same way, transcending political affiliations and generations. To a person, women that were in the room, across party lines, in their early 20s to late 60s, early 70s, had silent tears s stanley cups treaming down their faces, stanley cup Cheney told CBS News. That was the moment I knew I would share this story. The story for Cheney is that of her own abortion, which she decided to undergo during her first trimester of pregnancy nearly a decade ago. After becoming sick because of a rare immune disorder, Cheney s doctors found a medication that would fight the infection she developed while pregnant, but they warned it carried a risk of causing significant health issues for the fetus.Already with three young children to care for, now ages 8, 10 and 12, Cheney and her husband decided she would have an abortion, determining it was best for their family. Cheney, who started her own recruiting and consulting firm and runs a cattle farm with her husband, had shared her experience with those c Afhf Trump downplays John Lewis legacy: He didn t come to my inauguration
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH....Brendan Nyhan crunches some numbers to test the conventional wisdom about Barack Obama s support and concludes that some of it is true and some isn t. He looks at five pieces of CW: 1 Obama does better in caucus states, 2 he does better in states with either few blacks or lots of blacks, 3 he does worse in states with lots of Hispanics, 4 he does worse in big states, and 5 he does worse in heavily Democratic states. He concludes that only 1 and 2 are true:It s hard to separate the associations between stanley borraccia these variables because larger states are on average more black and Hispanic, more Democratic, and less likely to have caucuses. But when we put all these factors together in a linear regression including both black populati stanley spain on and black population squared , we find that the U-shaped quadratic relationship for black population and the positive relationship for caucuses are statistically significant, while the other factors are not. In other words, the evidence so far is consistent with the conventional wisdom that Obama does best in heavily black and heavily white states and in caucuses and he does less well in moderately black states and primaries.I d add a caveat to this. Brendan actually finds that all five pieces of CW are true, but that the last three aren t statist stanley botella ically significant. In other words, there s at least a 5% possibility that they might be the result of chance.But this is a one shot deal, and I wonder if the resu

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Vvib Poll: Trump, Clinton leading in Iowa among likely caucus goers
President Trump concluded his time at the G-7 summit in Canada on Saturday by warning American allies against crossing the U.S. on trade. Speaking ahead of his planned departure for the North Korea summit in Singapore, he also called the anticipated meeting a one-time shot for Kim Jong Un to make North Korea great. Mr. Trump, who has sparred with other world leaders on Twitter over trade in recent days, warned other nations against retaliating against U.S.-imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and even warned that the U.S. might stop dealing with nations that fail to treat the U.S. fairly. If they retaliate, they re making a mistake, stanley flask Mr. Trump said in a last-minute press availability ahead of his departure. Mr. Trump has made it clear he believesU.S. alliesha stanley italia ve taken advantage of the U.S. on trade for far too long, blasting them for what he believes are economically damaging trade deficits. On Saturday, the president said the U.S. is like the piggy bank that everybody s robbing. At the top of the list was the issue of trade, very important subject because the Untied States has been taken advantage of for decades and decades and we can t do that anymore, Mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump claimed he would prefer to have no tariffs a stanley tumblers mong countries across the board, and no subsidies mdash; That s the way you learn at the Wharton School of Finance, he said.The president also attacked U.S. reporters on foreign soil, attemptin Vuoo Ted Cruz s eligibility to run questioned by more GOP candidates
Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Getty Images Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Tuesday Newt Gingrich must be angry for calling him a liar, but he does not know why. Earlier Tuesday, the former House speaker said on CBS The Early Show that Romney is a liar because he pretends he does not have anything to do with a so-called Super PAC that has run television ads sharply critical of Gingrich. This is a man whose staff created the PAC. His millionaire friends fund the PAC. He pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC. stanley us It s baloney, Gingrich told CBS The Early Show. Asked to respond to the charge by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, Romney said, well, I don t know why he s so angry. I think he s mad for a lot of reasons, but I think he is a good guy. I like his wife Callista, wish him well, Romney added.The Republican front-runner insisted that he is powerless to tell the Super PAC what it should do with its television advertisements. Of course the Super PAC that is working for me, stanley cups uk I know the people there. Of course I helped raise money for it, but the law says I can t tell them what kind of ads to run or when to run them stanley mugs or where to run them. That s the law that we have to live by, we re

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White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney addressed reporters after his first day on the job as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau MondayHe told reporters he was instituting a 30-day hiring freeze, as well as a freeze on new rules for the same time period. At the same time, he promised that stanley website rumors that he d set the bureau on fire or blow it up or lock the doors are completely false, and he vowed to fulfill the provisions of the Wall Street overhaul legislation, the Dodd-Frank Act, that govern the agency. stanley canada Politics behind the unfolding drama at watchdog agency CFPB 02:29 But he had little good to say about the CFPB, calling the agency an awful example of a bureaucracy. He also said it was flawed and completely unaccountable. And, he added, I think that s wrong. Mulvaney s news conference came as he fights off a challenge from someone else named to be acting director -- Deputy CFPB Director Leandra English -- who was installed by outgoing CFPB Director Richard Cordray. Mr. Trump appointed Mulvaney under the Federal Va stanley cup spain cancies Reform Act.There is a lawsuit over the dueling directors filed byEnglish. She contends President Trump s appointment ofMulvaneyis superceded by the Dodd-Frank statute governing her a Dxsm Pelosi says she was devastated by the loss of Elijah Cummings
Attorney G stanley cups uk eneral John Ashcroft launched a spirited defense of his controver stanley borraccia sial anti-terror actions Thursday, saying the Justice Department needs every policy it is using to meet that threat.Holding aloft an al-Qaida terrorism manual, the attorney general told the Senate Judiciary Committee: We are at war with an enemy that abuses individual rights as it abuses jetliners. 133; Defending our nation a stanley spain nd its citizens against terrorist attacks is now our first law enforcement priority. Ashcroft s appearance came in an atmosphere of mounting criticism by Senate Democrats that the Justice Department moved too far, too quickly, to implement a host of stern investigative measures in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But he defended the plans, saying daily threats show an enemy bent on destroying America, reports CBS News Senior Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer. They are a chilling daily chronicle of the hatred of Americans by fanatics who seek to extinguish freedom, enslave women, corrupt education and kill Americans wherever and whenever they can, said Ashcroft. As evidence, Ashcroft displayed a captured terrorist manual which shows how deadly and detailed terrorist training has become -- a book offering on everything from concealing identity to a graphic passage that outlines guidelines for beating and killing hostages.Ashcroft chided critics of the various measures, including the government s detention and questioni

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WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday overwhelmingly backed a $601 billion defense authorization bill that spares planes, ships and military stanley cup bases in an election-year nod to hometown interests.Ignoring a White House veto threat, Republicans and Democrats united behind the popular measure that authorizes stanley shop spending on weapons and personnel for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The vote was 325-98 for the legislation which now must be reconciled with a work-in-progress Senate version.The Pentagon had proposed retiring the Cold War-era U-2 spy plane and the A-10 Warthog close-air support aircraft as well as shuttering unnecessary bases. Spending stanley cups on the military is being cut after more than a decade of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and deficit-driven budget reductions are taking a toll.Working within spending limits, the Pentagon proposed retiring decades-old aircraft programs, including the A-10 Warthog, a close air support plane, and the U-2 spy plane of the Cold War era. The Defense Department also sought congressional approval to close military bases deemed unessential and slightly increase out-of-pocket costs for housing and health care. Not this year, said Republicans and Democrats alike. They left popular personnel benefits untouched despite repeated warnings that the skyrocketing costs of Pentagon entitlement programs come at the expense of modernizing and training the military. It is not our job to accept the department s budg Jsmz Romney defends tenure at Bain
Discharging troops under the Pentagon s policy on gays cost $363.8 million over 10 years, almost double what the government concluded a year ago, a private report says.The report, to be released Tuesday by a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission, questioned the methodology the Government Accountability Office used when it estimated that the financial impact of the Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy was at least $190.5 million. It builds on the previous findings and paints a more complete picture of the costs, said Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., who has proposed legislation that would repeal the policy. Congress approved the Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy in 1993 during the Clinton administration. It allows gays and lesbians to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps as long as they abstain from homosexual activ stanley nz ity and do not disclose their sexual orientation.The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which has represented service members who left the military under the policy, estimates the Pentagon has discharged more than 10,000 service members for homosexuality since Don t Ask, Don t Tell went into effect in 1994. The number of discharges has gone down in recent years. In February 2005, the GAO said the financial impact could not be completely estimated because the government does not collect financial information specific to each individual stanley cup s c stanley en mexico ase.Cautioning that the figures may be too low, the GAO said the fe